Re: Possibly OT: How to diagnose 3494 ATL communications failur es

2004-05-24 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Possibly OT: How to diagnose 3494 ATL communications failures Recently, my TSM AIX server has been reporting issues communicating with our 3494 ATL (plain jane

Possibly OT: How to diagnose 3494 ATL communications failures

2004-05-20 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Recently, my TSM AIX server has been reporting issues communicating with our 3494 ATL (plain janeno VTS).This is not a new connection. Has been working for years. TSM has started to notice the issues. I contacted IBM, who says they couldn't find anything wrong. We checked the network

Re: Possibly OT: How to diagnose 3494 ATL communications failures

2004-05-20 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Thanks for the feedback. What I would first pursue, per analogous ADSM QuickFacts entry: Query operation Error - Library is Offline to Host. In response to something like 'mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qL' means that there is no access because the 3494 is itself offline. Go to

Library Manager/Client Firewall - the sage continues

2004-05-20 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Once again, I am looking for help/confirmation/suggestions on how to make this seemingly impossible configuration of Library Manager/Library Server/TSM server behind firewall. This is what we are attemptingsorry about the repeats for those folks who have been living through this mess, with me

Re: To Audit or Not to Audit.......that is the question !

2004-05-14 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
it's inventory with the library's inventory. When you add the CHECKL=B parameter, no tapes will be mounted, unless a barcode is unreadable. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14

Re: To Audit or Not to Audit.......that is the question !

2004-05-14 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 8:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: To Audit or Not to Audit...that is the question ! Thank you for the feedback/information. I must have a messed-up library. I start the audit when I got your message

Re: Upcoming web seminar

2004-05-13 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Speaking of training, Tivoli Technical Exchange has some more seminars on Performance Tuning, in July. Go here: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/supp_tech_exch.html Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/13/2004 10:28 AM

Library Client vault management

2004-05-11 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Now that I have 3-TSM servers sharing 2-Tape Libraries, I need to get into the issue of Vault Management. So, the questions are starting to flow.. Since you normally vault a storage pool and the tapes are associated with the storage pool of the library client (LC) TSM server, do I need

Re: What ever happened to Group Collocation ?

2004-05-06 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions on how to address this issue. Still waiting for Group Collocation :-) ! Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/04/2004 07:49 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To [EMAIL

Server-to-server communications through a firewall for Library Sharing

2004-05-06 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
The subject pretty much covers it. I need to communicate between TSM servers, one behind a firewall (tape Library Client), the other not (tape Library Manager which communicates with the 3494 which has the SAN FC attached drives)... It would be nice if the two servers always kept the connection

Problems with 2K3 server backups

2004-05-05 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Can someone give me some suggestions on how to deal with these errors. We are having lots of problems backing up 2K3 servers. Usually get errors about the WMI file. Yes, I have the latest, 5.2.2.10 client. The server is 5.2.1.3. Is there something special I need to configure if ShadowCopy is

Re: Problems with 2K3 server backups

2004-05-05 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I thought the same thing. So why are the 2003 servers/TSM trying to back it up ? Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/05/2004 10:18 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: Problems

What ever happened to Group Collocation ?

2004-05-04 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Any one have any idea on what the target is for this much needed feature ? I thought it was originally targeted for 5.2.2 (unless I missed it somewhere !). I have 125 tapes with less than 10% used, due to collocation and a bunch of small nodes and I really need to reduce that number !

Re: What ever happened to Group Collocation ?

2004-05-04 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
-collocated tape pool. Joerg Pohlmann 604-535-0452 Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-05-04 07:54 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:What ever

Re: TSM Reporting

2004-04-28 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
If you would check the ADSM-L archives, you would see that this topic has been discussed numerous times in the past. Everyone has their opinions/likes/dislikes/needs/budgets/etc, which are often factors in what software is purchased. I use TSMManager and think it is fantastic. The developer is

Re: 3584/lto2 code

2004-04-27 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I would also encourage folks to get 8.4.6.0 of Atape. The first entry in the readme says it all: 8.4.6.0 Fix excessice retry when configuring smc device for long boot problem Add mtlib utility for 3494 and SCSI Medium Changer Libraries We were seeing 30-minute boot times until we

Re: Internal Memory Managment TSM @MVS

2004-04-27 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I can concur on this. I also called IBM TSM on zOS support, back a while ago, about performance issues. He told me the default maxquick value is 4% of allocated/available REGION. For us, we bumped it to 20M. He also said there is a usermod that will zap TSM to make it default to 10% (or

2K3 backup issues

2004-04-27 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Anyone seen these kind of error messages and/or suggest what to do about them ? This is on a 2K3 server going to an AIX TSM 5.2.1.3 server. The client is at the latest, 5.2.2.9 ! 04/25/2004 20:33:40 sessRecvVerb(): Invalid verb received. 04/25/2004 20:33:40 sessRecvVerb(): Invalid verb

Re: TSM AIX server spewing error messages

2004-04-23 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
To answer the various responses related to my question: Yes, I personally physically labeled the tapes (both sticky external and electronic internal). These tapes were not pre-labeled, AFAIK. While I have run the physical diagnostics from the control panel, I have not run the tapeutil tests from

Re: TSM AIX server spewing error messages

2004-04-22 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
This is really becoming annoying. I need to figure out if I have a hardware issue, or not ! I just got these errors, again. They seemed to follow th dismounting of the tape. These are brand new tapes ! Do I have defective tapes or a defective drive ? Has anyone else seen anything like this ?

Re: TSM AIX server spewing error messages

2004-04-20 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Thank you for the explaination. However, what does it all mean ? Why do I get error message that try to address 20-different possibilities of reasons for some failure, that I am not sure I am having ? What does it all mean to me ? Should I just call IBM and have them come figure it out ?

Re: BA client 5.2.2 and Server 2003

2004-04-19 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Have you looked here: ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/client/v5r2/Windows/Win32/v522/ Robert Ouzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/19/2004 12:24 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netware 6.5 and TSM 5.2.2

2004-04-19 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Not sure if this will help, but I found a reference to a Novell TID that talks about Backup applications that are not Cluster enabled. It is: 10065605 ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/19/2004 09:58:17 AM: Every question seems to relate to Novell when I am on here...We

TSM AIX server spewing error messages

2004-04-19 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
My AIX TSM server (5.2.2.3) just spewed the following error messages. Talk about schizophrenic/indecisive !! What gives ? All I was doing is a DB backup. Just inserted and initialized this tape. The init went fine. This is an IBM 3583-L72 with 2-LTO2 drives.

Server IP controls

2004-04-13 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Recently, we have been reconfiguring/locking down a lot of the TCPIP ports in use by the TSM servers and clients, attempting to control/route TSM traffic across a private subnet versus the more heavily used public network. However, we have been having some TSM scheduler communications, due to

Re: Server IP controls

2004-04-13 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
-routed subnet for our clients, but the clients are required a second NIC connected to the private, non-routed subnet. H. Milton Johnson Voice: (210) 677-6728 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Tuesday

Re: Server IP controls

2004-04-13 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
and no amount of port opening, aliasing, etc. can get your traffic to flow to and from 192.168.20.44. H. Milton Johnson -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 12:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: Adding new DB RecLog volumes whilst TSM server is running (on OS390)

2004-04-07 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I never stop my TSM server to add volumes. I just let the TSM server format the volume. Define the cluster using standard IDCAMS as you have and then just define the volume to the storage pool. TSM does the rest. Or, I just have a dummy copy of the opt file to perform the standalone formating.

Error backing up Linux client and un-closed APAR

2004-04-07 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I have a client reporting these kind of errors errors: 04/02/2004 23:04:02 PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=164 from fioGetDirEntries: / 04/02/2004 23:04:04 ANS4023E Error processing '/': file input/output error 04/02/2004 23:04:04 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'UCSMCV.DAILY' failed. Return code = 12.

Who controls the CLEAN cycle ?

2004-04-06 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I have always wondered about this but could not find a difinitve answer. Who controls/manages the 3590 tape drive cleaning, in a 3494, when the library is shared between z/OS/MVS and TSM on AIX and the drives used by the AIX system are FC attached and installed as open systems drives ? I ask

Windows TSM server and sharing 3494 ATL across SAN

2004-04-02 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Is this a workable configuration ? So far, all of my attempts at making this work, say it isn't. The major problem is that as soon as I enable the 3494/3590E1A drives on the Windows box (2003), I start getting drive inaccessibilty failures on the AIX TSM server. The SAN connection is via Qlogic

Re: Windows TSM server and sharing 3494 ATL across SAN

2004-04-02 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
-Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 1:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Windows TSM server and sharing 3494 ATL across SAN Is this a workable configuration ? So far, all of my attempts at making this work, say it isn't. The major

Re: Windows TSM server and sharing 3494 ATL across SAN

2004-04-02 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
INSTEAD of the TSM SCSI driver with a TSM 5.2 server. It's documented in the Getting Started guide for Windows TSM 5.2. If you're still on 5.1, forget I mentioned it... -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 2:38 PM To: [EMAIL

Speaking of 5.2.2.5 client.......

2004-04-01 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Has anyone else noticed that the TSM 5.2.2.5 client on Windows 2000, does not remove itself from memory after shutting it down, properly ? I have noticed this twice now. Robert Ouzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/01/2004 05:16 AM Please respond to

Re: Library sharing

2004-04-01 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
, right? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Library sharing Well, in this case, it isn't, sortof... I don't have *ANY* path statements

Re: Netware 6.5 running TSM 5.2.2

2004-04-01 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Found this in the readme for the 5.2.2.3 Netware TSM client: Looks like your problem ! Novell NetWare Incident: 2928395 Failing NetWare OS Version: NW6.5 Failing SMS/TSA Modules Version: tsafs.nlm Failing Service Pack/TSA up Level: NW6.5 FIXING SERVICE

Re: Library sharing

2004-04-01 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
showed you how to get the serial number, but the WWN can be gotten with 'lsattr -El rmtx' command. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 8:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Library sharing

2004-03-31 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Trying to get ATL library sharing working between two TSM AIX servers. I think I finally got the definitions correct..at least they seem to function. However, I can't get the library client (capella) to use the drives. Every time it does, I get these errors in the activity log:

Re: Library sharing

2004-03-31 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
: Library sharing Hi, From my experience with 3584 Library, the rmt devices should be The same on both machines e.g. server_1 /dev/rmt1 /dev/rmt2 etc... And also on the library client /dev/rmt1 ... AH -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: Library sharing

2004-03-31 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
lto2 srctype=server desttype=drive library=3584 device=/dev/rmt4 Clear as mud, right? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Library sharing Well

TSM client memory usage

2004-03-30 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
We are configure our new Lotus Domino servers and have some questions about the TSM client (Windows 2003 server) and how and how much memory it will/can use. These servers are going to be big, with 4-6TB of disk storage, to support 20-30K accounts. Nightly backups will probably be in the 100's of

NODE table weirdness

2004-03-24 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Just did a query of the NODE table of my TSM AIX 5.2.1.3 and noticed something weird. The TCP_NAME and TCP_ADDRESS fields from one node has been overlayed onto a completely different nodes entry. Checked the DSM.SYS (both of these boxes are AIX systems) and they are correct/haven't changed for a

Re: Backing up NDS/eDirectory server

2004-03-23 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Let me add a few things gleaned from my (and others) experience with this process. 1. It is best to get the 5.2.2.3 patch release. It addresses memory-leak issues in 5.2.2.0. 2. While the recommendation of running the backup from the server that holds the master replica is probably OK in

Re: GIGE connectivity via TSM

2004-03-23 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
In your DSM.OPT on the client (this is from the book): Tcpclientaddress The tcpclientaddress option specifies a TCP/IP address if your client node has more than one address, and you want the server to contact an address other than the one that was used to make the first server contact.

Re: GIGE connectivity via TSM

2004-03-23 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
My understanding of TCPCLIENTADDRESS is different. We use it for multi-homed boxes that have a separate NIC that connects to a private, internal, GIGE subnet so that the backups are pushed across it versus the public subnet. To verify this, when I check the details for a TSM node (on the TSM

Re: GIGE connectivity via TSM

2004-03-23 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
FWIW, I found this sentence in another TSM book: The value of the tcpclientaddress option must be the service IP address. This is the IP address used for primary traffic to and from the node. Wholey, Joseph (IDS DMDS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Notmountable tapes being requested

2004-03-18 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
When you do a Q VOL 00025-L1 F=D, what does it say is the LOCATION/STATUS and such ? ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/18/2004 01:17:00 PM: I'm trying to recover from a bunch of hardware errors on our tape library, and issued the following to get a good backup for DRM:

What does eAssemby mean

2004-03-17 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I seem to recall someone asking this question but I don't recall them getting an answer. I am looking at the Passport downloads for Tivoli products. The TSM entries are labeled as either Non-AP eAssemby or AP eAssemby. What does this mean ?

Re: Antwort: Multi-TSM configuration questions (and now issues)

2004-03-11 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Hi, is the removable storage service on the w2k3 box disabled?If not do so. Not sure. I turned the box off and haven't had any more problems. I will restart and disable it. Have you configured the library to use the tsmscsi.sys driver? Not the Microsoft driver. As I mentioned, it dosn't see

Multi-System shared library questions

2004-03-10 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I am in the middle of a large, multi-TSM, shared-library, different OS, different platform configuration process. Here is the layout: Current Configuration --- 1-3494 ATL which consists of 8-3590B, ESCON attached drives (uses exclusively by our z/OS system) and

Re: Client backup request form

2004-03-10 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I checking the TSM Concepts book, there is a link to a zipped/tarred file that contains a bunch of worksheets: ftp://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG245416 Also, IIRC, the Implementation/Planning Guide book also has some appendixes with sample forms to ask questions of clients. ADSM: Dist Stor

Multi-TSM configuration questions (and now issues)

2004-03-10 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Not sure if this message got lost and now that I am having some issues, I am reposting.. Yesterday, I installed TSM on the 2K3 system (described below). Now, my original TSM AIX system is starting to experience problems like this: 3/9/2004 2:50:27 PM ANR8779E Unable to open drive /dev/rmt0,

Re: tsm linux client

2004-03-08 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Not sure if it matters, but I code SCHEDLOGR 14 D, the last value being Days ! ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/08/2004 01:53:58 PM: Anyone else having problems with the dsmsched and dsmerror log not truncating dsm.sys: Schedlogretention 14 Errorlogretention 14

Re: Can't define IBM3583-L72 LTO library to TSM

2004-03-07 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
but are you ettin useful entries in the AIX error log? Many thanks Andy Wilcox UNIX Systems Administrator Aquila Networks -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU

Re: Can't define IBM3583-L72 LTO library to TSM

2004-03-05 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Yep. Already checked all of these. Yes, the library is online. Checked with both the web/RMU and physically. Even power-recycled the box. Yes, I am doing a define of the PATH to the LIBRARY, not the drives. TAPEUTIL can't talk to the library, either. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]

MS-SQL backup problem caused by 5.2.2.5 client update

2004-03-05 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
My Windows person has been updating the clients on 2K3 boxes (since we have been seeing some of the issues addressed in this patch level). Now, all of those boxes with MS-SQL TDP clients, are screwed/not backing up. Here is her message: all the boxes with the sql tdp i upgraded to 5.2.2.5 have

Re: MS-SQL backup problem caused by 5.2.2.5 client update

2004-03-05 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Thank you and Richard for showing me the way. However, this is a still royal pain ! ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/05/2004 09:59:28 AM: Zoltan, This is a known problem. Go to: www.ibm.com Search for: ACO0004E You will see a KB article about how to resolve

64-bit server ?

2004-03-04 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Installing TSM 5.2.2 server on a new AIX system (7028-6C4) - 4GB RAM. Is there any real advantage/reason to installing the 64-bit version of the TSM server ? Opinions ? Thoughts ?

Can't define IBM3583-L72 LTO library to TSM

2004-03-04 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I have spent hours and hours trying to get TSM server 5.2.2.0 on AIX 5.1 to define the PATH to the above tape library. Every time I click on defining the PATH (/dev/smc0) to this library, TSM goes off and spins for a while, eventually coming back with some kind of error about being unable to

Windows 2003 server support

2004-03-01 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Is the TSM Windows 5.2.2 server supported on Windows 2K3 ? When I check in Passport for what I can download, it says: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V5.2.2 Windows Server, Multiplatform, Multi-Language Platform(s) Windows 95,Windows NT,Windows 98,Windows 2000 I thought it was a little odd that

Re: Linux; Oracle TDP; Client Schedular

2004-02-19 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
We have never used crontab to perform the backups for Oracle, MS-SQL or Domino/Notes. We always use the scheduler to run the COMMAND on the client. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/18/2004 06:50:47 PM: Anyone using the Client schedular to backup oracle databases/logs via

SGI backup issues/errors

2004-02-16 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Any idea what the following error messages might be trying to tell me ??? These are coming from an SGI client (latest 5.1.x version available - SGI support seems to be dropping/dieing) 02/11/04 23:19:07 tryOnTap: undefined descriptor! 02/11/04 23:19:07 tryOnTap: undefined descriptor!

Re: linux AMD64 client?

2004-02-12 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Have you tried here: ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/client/v5r2/Linux/LinuxAMD64/v522/ ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/12/2004 12:32:32 PM: We have a new Redhat Linux Advanced Server 3 Workstation AMD64 client, but I can't seem to

Re: Domino backups and MAXNUMMP

2004-02-11 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Thanks. That was kinda what I figured. No harm in asking ! Any plans to improve upon this ? We are currently working on expanding our Domino systems to handle 25K+ students/staff. There will be over 30K Notes users to backup, nightly ! ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on

Re: ZenWorks for Desktops, 6.5 Clusters SAN

2004-02-11 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I can't speak for your exact situation, but I can sympathize. TSM does not do a very good/complete job when it comes to handling Netware servers (NO IMAGE backups, NO SNAPSHOT, NO OPEN FILE SUPPORT). Yes, we use it for our few Netware servers. Can't speak for Veritas. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: OUTLOOK 2003, .PST open, will it backup while open?, TSM 5.2?

2004-02-11 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Have you looked at the Open-File-Support option ? This works as long as you have another drive/partition to point the SNAPSHOTCACHELOCATION to. This bit me on a server that is only configured with *1* partition/drive..Any chance of a feature to get around this issue ??? In this same vein,

Re: OUTLOOK 2003, .PST open, will it backup while open?, TSM 5.2?

2004-02-11 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
U You don't have a choice !!! Like I said, I have some systems with a single partition. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/11/2004 02:19:51 PM: From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In this same vein, can someone tell me what

Domino backups and MAXNUMMP

2004-02-10 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Are Notes/Domino backups effected by the MAXNUMMP/RESOURCEUTILZATION tuning values ? The daily backups are starting to get tight on time and I would like to try to speed things up. Network is not the issue (private GIG-E) and neither is TSM server CPU utilization/disk.

Re: Can we down load base versions using PASSPORT ADVANTAGE facility? .

2004-02-09 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
PASSPORT ADVANTAGE is what is used to download base versions. You must be authorized and have an account management id. Chandrashekar, C. R. (Chandrasekhar) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/09/2004 08:25 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Configuration and Expansion questions

2004-02-09 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
We are working on expanding our TSM systems with additional TSM servers, libraries, etc. Here is what we have right now and where we are heading (1) TSM on ZOS using IBM 3494 ATL (2) TSM on AIX sharing the 3494 but using its own 3590E1A drives attached to a SAN via FC New system #3 TSM on

Re: Lots of files on a Windows system

2004-02-09 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Have you looked at the JOURNAL feature ??? Troy L. Minter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/09/2004 03:05 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: I got a tsm question for you. I

Re: Configuration and Expansion questions

2004-02-09 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
not be enough for TWO systems of indeterminate size. You may need to go to the 3584. OK, somebody else shoot it down... -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 1:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Configuration

Re: TSM 5.2 performances on AIX 5.1

2004-02-05 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Also, ITSM folks had various Technical Exchange web seminars. Many of them addressed Performance Tuning in both the SERVER and CLIENT areas, including recommended settings for things like TCPIP ! I saved the PPT/PDF files from these sessons, if you or anyone is interested in them. Some of them

Re: Viewing PDF manuals online

2004-02-05 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I agree on the speed issue. Adobe Acrobat 6 is a joke. The FIND processes is ridiculous, making you have to use the mouse, whether you like it or not (under V5, you used to be able to repeatedly do a CTRL-F to either find again or change the search value. Now a CTRL-F brings up the annoying find

Re: Viewing PDF manuals online

2004-02-05 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
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What do these numbers mean ?

2004-02-04 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
We are having problems getting a Linux client to perform backups (see my earlier message that has not been responded to...yet !). What do the numbers after the DNS name mean and how are they relevant ? Sometimes the numbers are 4-digitsother times 5 ?? 2/4/2004 10:36:48 AM ANR0406I Session

Re: What do these numbers mean ?

2004-02-04 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
/2004 11:18 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: What do these numbers mean ? TCP portnumber. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: woensdag 4 februari

Problems backing up RH9 system with 5.2.x client

2004-02-03 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
A user of mine just install the 5.2.2 client on a new RedHat 9 system. The symptom is: The back starts and immediately hangs/just sits there. Yes he remembered to: (you need to install the compat-gcc-c++-7.3-2.96.122.i386.rpm) The server is TSM 5.2.0 on AIX 5.1. The only this we see on the

Re: TSM administration through web gui

2004-02-02 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
What platform ? My TSM server on AIX at 5.2.0.0 is working just fine. In fact, I am really glad they addresses the problems their code caused when using MOZILLA ! Yiannakis Vakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/02/2004 08:31 AM Please respond to ADSM:

Re: Manual for Tivoli version of SYSBACK?

2004-01-29 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Try here: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/StorageMangerforSysback5.6.1.html Lawrence Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/29/2004 01:44 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:

Re: Sending reports from TSM

2004-01-26 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Take a good look at TSMMANAGER. It does all the reporting/managing we need. I live in it, daily. It is well worth the cost, which, IMHO, is very resonable/inexpensive for everything it does ! Kevin Godfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/26/2004

Re: RAW vs. JFS question

2004-01-23 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Well then, IBM needs to revisit their own technical documents. From a recent Technical Exchange series on TSM Performance Tuning: OS Platform Specific Recommendations - UNIX Use raw logical volumes for best TSM server performance AIX: mklv -ae -t tsmdb -y db1 volgrp1 64 hdisk4 mklv -ae -t

Re: RAW vs. JFS question

2004-01-22 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
As for the AIX perspective, we too converted everything TSM related, to RAW versus JFS (we went through the IBM Technical Exchange seminars, especially the ones that covered PERFORMANCE). From what we can tell, things seem to have become worse. We have not seen any drastic (or just really

Flushing out old TDP SQL backups

2004-01-20 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I goofed and forgot to set DELETE BACKUPS = YES on a TDP SQL client (now corrected) So now, there are 1/2 Terrabyte of garbage SQL backups. How do I get rid of them ? I was hoping that EXPIRE INVENTORY would clear them out since I corrected the setting, but it has not.

Re: AW: Flushing out old TDP SQL backups

2004-01-20 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
to eliminate garbage like this. maybe it also exist for the SQL Agent? regards joachim -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Januar 2004 14:56 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Flushing out old TDP SQL backups I goofed and forgot to set

Re: Flushing out old TDP SQL backups

2004-01-20 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Yes, that is the setting I was refering to (badly). When I checked the node error logs, I saw the messages about the setting being set to NO. We just don't understand why occupancy for this node is 1/2 terrabyte when the whole box only has 12GB used space Oh well, back to digging for some

Netware/NDS backup questions

2004-01-20 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Just started doing NDS/eDirectory backup and restore testing via the TSM 5.2.2 client on Netware 6.0 SP3 boxes and I have a few questions. 1. The NDS backup seems to *ALWAYS* backup *ALL* entries in NDS/tree (the TSM server is idle). Is this the way it is or did I miss something ? 2. How

Backing up NDS/eDirectory server

2004-01-14 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I need to backup a Netware 6.0 SP3 server with eDirectory (NDS + LDAP). Do I need to code anything special in the DSM.OPT / INCLUDE or is this an automatic thing ? If it is automatic, how can I tell ? Is it part of the server specific stuff ? Also plan to do a test recovery of this server to

Re: NW 6.5 corruption problem.

2004-01-12 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Do you have the NSS patches installed ? There have been some major problems with NSS. Currently the post SP patches are still in beta but every comment I have seen is to install them, asap. Some of the fixed address data corruption issues, especially from compression. Curt Watts [EMAIL

5.2.2 client on W2K issue ?

2004-01-08 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Just installed and ran a backup with my first 5.2.2.0 client on a W2K box and have the following issues/questions: ANR0440W Protocol error on session 18813 for node () - invalid verb header received. Any clue what causes this and why ? 01/08/2004 12:58:21 ANS4987E Error processing

TSM 5.2.x issue since upgrade

2004-01-05 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Upgraded my AIX TSM server to AIX 5.1 and TSM 5.2.1.3, about 3-weeks ago. I get an email from a user about the TSM server not responding, during the holidays. I checked the server Activity Log and here is what I found for the time frame in question: 01/02/04 01:33:24 ANR0403I Session 12878

Re: TSM and NETWARE 6.5

2004-01-05 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Have you tried the 5.2.2.0 client ? I just pulled them and they list Netware 6.5 as supported while 5.2.1.x does not ! Go here: ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/v5r2/Netware/v522/ Bill Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor

TSM 5.2.x/AIX 5.1 upgrade issue/question

2003-12-12 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
This seems to be a hot topic, so let me add another log to the fire. We recently upgraded our test TSM AIX server to AIX 5.1. Then we upgraded the TSM server to 5.2.0.0. Unfortunately, I missed the part about having to upgrade ATAPE to 8.2.x (it was still at 7) *BEFORE* upgrading TSM.

Re: TSM 5.2.x/AIX 5.1 upgrade issue/question

2003-12-12 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Yes we did. Rebooted numerous times. AIX says the drive is configured and available. David E Ehresman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/12/2003 11:02 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:

SGI client issues

2003-12-05 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Started getting these error messages, recently: 12/05/03 10:48:45 TransErrno: Unexpected error from GetFSInfo:statvfs64, errno = 145 12/05/03 10:50:16 TransErrno: Unexpected error from lstat, errno = 145 12/05/03 10:50:16 PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=131 from fioGetDirEntries: / 12/05/03

Re: SGI client issues

2003-12-05 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Thanks for the help, Richard. Will look into the NFS issue. Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/05/2003 11:32 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: SGI client

Re: exporting a client

2003-12-04 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
The EXPORT command does it. I am currently running an EXPORT NODE TO SERVER to move the data from one TSM server to another. This is the command I used/the WEB GUI generated. What you are looking for is the FILEDATA=ALL (or you can choose Backups, activebackups, archives, etc.) EXPORT NODE

Re: Import and Export Datasize Question

2003-12-03 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
In my experience in various attempts at IMPORT/EXPORT, the numbers *NEVER* matched. Always seemed to be a small (1-10 bytes) difference. Sung Y Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/02/2003 04:27 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To:

Re: Catalog Size and large number of files

2003-11-18 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Have you thought of creating/using BACKUP SETS ? Pasquale, Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/18/2003 11:07 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Catalog Size and large

AS/400 TSM client

2003-11-18 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
We have an AS/400 system we would like to backup with TSM. We read that the OS/400 we have is downlevel so we have ordered and scheduled an upgrade of the OS. However, now there is the issue of BRMS !Is is absolutely required ? When I read through some of the readme files, the only software

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